Mortality from smoking in developed countries 1950-2000

Influenza Excess Mortality from 1950–2000 in Tropical Singapore

INTRODUCTION Tropical regions have been shown to exhibit different influenza seasonal patterns compared to their temperate counterparts. However, there is little information about the burden of annual tropical influenza epidemics across time, and the relationship between tropical influenza epidemics compared with other regions. METHODS Data on monthly national mortality and population was obt...

Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality in Canada, 1950-2000.

OBJECTIVE To describe trends in overall alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality in Canada, and to test regional associations between per capita alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality. METHOD Alcohol sales for 1950-2000 were used to measure total alcohol consumption; alcohol-related mortality consisted of nine different alcohol-related causes of death for 1950-1998. Alcoho...

Estimating the effect of smoking on slowdowns in mortality declines in developed countries.

Declines in mortality rates for females at older ages in some developed countries, including the United States, have slowed in recent decades even as decreases have steadily continued in some other countries. This study presents a modified version of the indirect Peto-Lopez method, which uses lung cancer mortality rates as a proxy for smoking exposure, to analyze this trend. The modified method...

Mortality and smoking prevalence: An empirical investigation in ten developed countries

We investigate the link between death rates and smoking prevalence in ten developed countries with the aim of using smoking prevalence data to explain differences in country-specific death rates. A particular problem in building a stochastic mortality model based on smoking prevalence is that there are in general no separate mortality data for smokers and non-smokers available. We show how we c...

Present trends in mortality in the age group 35--64 in selected developed countries between 1950--1973.